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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 2891830, member: 81887&quot;]I don&#039;t know if mintage figures have survived from the Song dynasty, but Hartill does quote some figures from the Qian Long reign (1736-95).&nbsp; Here&#039;s some of the figures he gives (keep in mind that a &quot;string&quot; is 1,000 cash coins):</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Casting by the Board of Revenue mint rose to over 900,000 strings a year, but was slashed to 374,940 strings in 1794 while the reforms were being put in place.... Casting by the Board of Works averaged some 500,000 strings a year.&nbsp; In 1794, casting was reduced to 187,470 strings...The Fujian mint had 8 furnaces which cast 48,532 strings a year...The Guangdong mint cast around 34,000 strings a year...&quot;&nbsp; And so forth (I&#039;m skipping some mints).&nbsp; It adds up to nearly 2,000,000,000 coins _per year_ in the late 1700s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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